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Doing some last minute shopping and saw their sign today. Cant say I'm shocked. With Leon and Son opening, being far more geared towards serious wine people + being very affordable (plus being a beautiful space), a place geared towards the people that like wine puns, and just always had a "just barely open" look, was on borrowed time.

The space could use a major renovation anyway, but it leaving puts the empty retail space count up to 5 now on Cherry St.. A bit of a bad look. The ICCF building has also had no takers.

Wealthy St. and Eastown were jumping on Saturday, though. Several shops I went into were mall packed! Made me feel really good, but Cherry St. needs to up their game here.

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Doing some last minute shopping and saw their sign today. Cant say I'm shocked. With Leon and Son opening, being far more geared towards serious wine people + being very affordable (plus being a beautiful space), a place geared towards the people that like wine puns, and just always had a "just barely open" look, was on borrowed time.

The space could use a major renovation anyway, but it leaving puts the empty retail space count up to 5 now on Cherry St.. A bit of a bad look. The ICCF building has also had no takers.

Wealthy St. and Eastown were jumping on Saturday, though. Several shops I went into were mall packed! Made me feel really good, but Cherry St. needs to up their game here.

Just what new places Eastown has?, a nail place and a piercing parlor! The owners outpriced the black owned shoe store, so he moved....And the new apartments, where the tattoo parlor is, a great addition to the neighborhood, with $2000 apartments above....

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Oh yikes! We just had a problem with two wine shops, now two sushi? Great to see that space being used none the less. Maybe they will be a strictly takeout place? That would at least keep both from cannibalizing each other.

Looks like more than take out. Here is a pic through their front window.

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Essence Restaurant Group is closing Grove and transitioning it to Jimmy Berger's Chicken Shack which will open Friday. After the stay safe order is lifted it will transition into a fast casual set up.

Greenwell is doing well/Bistro Bell Vista will get some menu attention. Its interesting to see the landscape change in front of us and probably a smart move (seems per the post as in the works) as who knows when full service restaurants will fully reopen.

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Essence Restaurant Group is closing Grove and transitioning it to Jimmy Berger's Chicken Shack which will open Friday. After the stay safe order is lifted it will transition into a fast casual set up.

Greenwell is doing well/Bistro Bell Vista will get some menu attention. Its interesting to see the landscape change in front of us and probably a smart move (seems per the post as in the works) as who knows when full service restaurants will fully reopen.

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I don't think it was supposed to. I thought the intention from the beginning was for it to be a pop-up so they weren't losing money on vacant real estate.

I dunno... the stories I read made it seemed like they thought it would be a long term concept and it didn’t work out. But with as quickly and turbulent as things are, I would expect any course of events at this point.